@Raritybro

There’s no way these color choices are coincidences

I’m sorry, but I highly doubt that they were deliberate. I mean, even ignoring that Lauren’s original idea for the main characters involved entirely different color schemes (for the most part), why would they go out of their way to make a deliberate reference to these things? Especially when you consider that, even in the first season, the people in charge pushed back on the idea that Rainbow being something of a tomboy meant she had to be a lesbian as well. Or that the flag next to Pinkie Pie has only been a thing since around 2010, and the character was almost designed and being animated well before that was well known (since we know the actual process of making an episode takes a considerable amount of time). Plus I really doubt the first thought they had for why Zecora, the zebra, should be black and white striped is because she’d match the heterosexual flag when black and white striped is literally the species’ natural color.

I mean don’t get me wrong, I’d buy the idea that for maybe one character on the show they sat down and, for the heck of it, based the color scheme off of something like that. But all of these? A smattering of main, secondary, and “appeared in the background for maybe 10 seconds” characters? On a show that had no interest (early on at least) with touching on any sort of romantic pairings? It just doesn’t make a lot of sense.

There’s no way these color choices are coincidences